Concord's Sydney Martines (7) and the rest of the Yellowjackets celebrate their three-set sweep of Schoolcraft in the Class C quarterfinal volleyball match held at Delton Kellogg. (Paul Morgan / MLive.com)

DELTON, MI – It seems that the best thing Concord’s girls volleyball team can do is to get into a lull and lose a few points.

‘’They don’t like to lose, so all of a sudden, they have to get themselves riled back up after getting behind,’’ Yellowjackets coach Kathy Lehman said. ‘’They do that quite a bit to me.’’

The biggest lull came in the second set, but Concord rallied to win it and the No. 3-ranked Yellowjackets wound up with a 25-20, 28-26, 25-20 sweep of Schoolcraft in a Class C state quarterfinal match on Tuesday night at Delton Kellogg.

‘’When we were down, we were able to get back into the match with talking and enthusiasm,’’ senior Andrea Brigham said. ‘’We’re a loud team.’’

Concord will play Monroe St. Mary Catholic in the semifinals on Thursday at 2 p.m. in Battle Creek’s Kellogg Arena.

Concord (57-6) held a 24-22 lead in the second set, but then hit a bit of a lull which Schoolcraft (37-15) took advantage of, scoring two points on a Yellowjacket hitting error and a kill by the Eagles’ Marianne Douglas.

Brigham tipped a ball over Schoolcraft’s big block to give Concord a 25-24 lead, but the Eagles had a defensive dig which went over the net and hit the floor and another Douglas kill to make it 26-25.

‘’We knew we had to be on top of our game, even if we got down,’’ Brigham said. ‘’We trust each other that we’re going to get to every ball.’’

That happened on the next three points. Brigham ripped a middle kill to tie it at 26, then junior Abbey Pratt put Concord ahead with a tip and she also blasted a long Schoolcraft service receive for set point.

The third set was close at the start, but Concord had the momentum of the tight second-set win. The Yellowjackets took the lead at 8-7 on a leftside kill by Maycee Brigham. Concord won the match on a Schoolcraft service error.

Andrea Brigham led Concord with 18 kills and Maycee Brigham added 15. Sydney Martines put up a big block in the middle with two solos.

For the Eagles, Douglas had 10 kills, Kara Craig added nine kills and three blocks and Kari Feddema had eight kills and a block.

‘’They were tough and we didn’t know what to expect,’’ Craig said. ‘’They were good and we just weren’t completely on top of it.

‘’It came down to they didn’t make as many errors as we did.’’

The errors were few and far between for both teams. There was a second-set rally which saw the ball cross the net at least 10 times, both squads coming up with skin-burning digs and monsterous blocks.

Lehman had a hint that Concord could go deep into the postseason playoffs.

‘’We have nine seniors on this team and this group went to the semifinals in basketball last season,’’ she said. ‘’They are a team of very hard workers.’’

Onken wasn’t so sure about her Eagles, though.

‘’We sat there on day one and I asked them their goals and they were saying like finishing second or third in the conference,’’ she said. ‘’I said no, to aim high.

‘’I wanted them to know they could do great things and they started to believe it.’’